Will this format COMPRESS twice? - HELP!

[Dear Prudence]

Hi

Using Premiere Pro 1.5 - I have captured my first 30 min VHS to my hard drive - it has saved as a .AVI

I have lots of tapes to edit together, but I haven't got the time right now.

I want to save them to DVD but I am unsure if I will lose quality when I come to edit them in the future.

My question;

If I save my work onto DVD - and at a later date IMPORT that DVD back into Premiere Pro - for editing - and then EXPORT back to DVD will I DOUBLE COMPRESS my files?

If so what is the best way to store .avi projects off the hard drive - while waiting to be edited?

28 min .avi has saved as a whopping 6.13GB file.

Many thanks in advance - Stephen

[jtoolman2000]

28 min .avi has saved as a whopping 6.13GB file

Yep,,, absolutely normal!

Get your self a cheap standalone DVD recorder and directly transfer all those taped to DVD r. It is a 1:1 real time process. Most may have several recording speeds like found on VCRs to allow 1 -2-3-4 and even more hours of recording.

Of cource quality WILL suffer with anything beyond 2 hours.

This method will NOT give fancy menus but you do get a meny of sorts.

You can then at yoour leasure, inport each of the DVD into TDA and reauthor them with nicer menus, chapter menus and such. You can even do some basic edits to the tracks.

[nic2k4]

If you want to save the original AVI's, then zip them with WinRAR with multimedia compression and recovery record enabled, set the volume to match a DVD. You'll end up with however many files, just burn each one to a blank DVD as a data file. Or install a lossless video codec and have premiere render your video with it, then burn as a data file.

[greymalkin]

it appears as though they are already using a lossless codec as an uncompressed AVI at DVD res would be over 30gb. When I capped my wedding video (approx. 30 minutes) it was about 33gb.